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Operating as usual
The Sault AmeriCorps Team spent the long weekend helping at the Sault Ste Marie Peck St Community Garden with weeding, watering, and some stress relief activities. Garden is looking good going into the summer's end. Looking forward to fresh veggies this fall. Many thanks to the United Way of the EUP, MFF & AmeriCorps and all the super volunteers who have supported the garden this year!
Try this Tuesday!
Here is a quick, easy, and healthy snack for you to try using Michigan Apples.
LifeSPAN Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe Demo
Food for Thought Friday
Did you know that cherries are bursting with antioxidants, vitamins, nutrients, and fiber all of which can help support a healthy system?
Here are some good reasons to indulge in cherries!
Photos from Trails of the Eastern U.P.'s post
Runaway Garden - Guided Reading
The Runaway Garden: A delicious story that's good for you, too! Written by Jeffery L Schatzer and illustrated by Jeffrey Ebbeler. Read along as Grandpa spins...
The Sault Ste. Marie Building a Healthier Community Coalition (SSMBHCC) invites you to participate in the 2020 EUP Hit the Trails Challenge. In celebration of National Trails Day for the month of June add our Facebook Frame to your profile picture and share your adventures on the trails with us. Participants will be entered into a drawing for prizes. Full instructions, a list of Eastern UP Trails, and other resources can be found at www.eup-planning.org/trails.
Walking so so good for the mind and body, find your trail and lets go for that walk.
American Hiking Society's National Trails Day celebrates America's magnificent trail system by promoting and preserving trails and natural spaces.
It's gardening season in Michigan!
Did you know that SNAP* benefits can be used to purchase seeds and plants to grow food?
In Michigan, SNAP is also known as the Food Assistance Program (FAP) and benefits are received on a Bridge Card.
The Bridge Card and Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) cards can be used to purchase seeds and food-producing plants at any store or farmers market that accepts SNAP benefits and sells these items.
Both cards can also be used to participate in Double Up Food Bucks Michigan. To find out more about the DUFB program, visit https://www.doubleupfoodbucks.org/
To find a farmers market near you that accepts SNAP benefits, visit the Michigan Farmers Market Association website at http://mifma.org/findafarmersmarket/
Become a Member - Safe Routes to Health
Safe Routes to Health AmeriCorps Program at the Michigan Fitness Foundation is seeking member applicants to provide service in select Michigan communities.
Mackinac Economic Alliance
and a perfect day for the market...
REMINDER to our friends and partner's downtown! It's Farmer's Market day today. Please clear the canopy by 2 PM so vendor's may set up for the market!
Thanks for all you do to make downtown great!
Bayliss Public Library, a Superior District Library
Fitness Friday?
Or Flashback Friday?
We were amazed at how many resources from our community were showcased at Project Backpack last week! Here are some silly pictures of us trying something new with our friends from Safe Routes 2 Health Sault Ste Marie, MI!
We still have a couple more weeks before school starts! Time create some healthy reading habits before school starts!
Bayliss Public Library, a Superior District Library
✏2019-2020 school calendars just in!
🐮2019 Chippewa County Fair books!
🌲And the Big Tree Hunt Contest rules!
These items can be found by the tablets in the Children's room!
remember, fresh is always best
REMINDER to our friends and partner's downtown! It's Farmer's Market day today. Please clear the canopy by 2 PM so vendor's may set up for the market!
Thanks for all you do to make downtown great!
Sault Ste Marie Farmers' Market
Tomorrow is Wednesday Farmer's Market day. Don't forget to swing by the Market Canopy and see what going on this week.
Fresh produce, meats, local crafts and baked goods.
This week we have a special cooking cooking demonstration courtesy of Taste the Local Difference. Stop down and check it out.
1450 WNBY
We just received an update from the Project Backpack committee. Distribution will be August 27, 2019. They currently have 43 families with 93 students participating in Project Backback and would like to help more community members in the Newberry and Curtis area. If you or somebody you know would benefit from this program please stop in to DHHS in Newberry to fill out an application.
Sault Ste Marie Farmers' Market
A fun happening at the Farmer's Market this week!
Taste the Local Difference is partnering up with the United Way of the EUP to share easy tips for how to best utilize your fresh market finds at home at the Farmers Market. Meet Alex, the Upper Peninsula Local Food Coordinator and learn more about her work to grow local food systems in our communities, and what you can do to help!
https://www.facebook.com/events/809098539487531/?active_tab=about
Bayliss Public Library, a Superior District Library
Fitness Friday?
Or Flashback Friday?
We were amazed at how many resources from our community were showcased at Project Backpack last week! Here are some silly pictures of us trying something new with our friends from Safe Routes 2 Health Sault Ste Marie, MI!
We still have a couple more weeks before school starts! Time create some healthy reading habits before school starts!
Safe Routes to Health
Safe Routes to Health AmeriCorps Program is looking for 20 dedicated individuals to serve half-time implementing health, wellness, and physical activity programming in underserved, low-income communities. You will help residents eat well and be physically active all while making your community healthier and improving conditions where people live, learn, work, and play! Your 900 hour term of service begins October 1, 2019 and runs through August 14, 2020 with a weekly requirement of 20 hours of service. Benefits include student loan deferment; skills and training; living allowance of $6,067 distributed bi-weekly; and an education award upon completion of service to help pay for college, graduate school, or vocational training, or to repay student loans.
To learn more about the program, visit https://saferoutestohealth.org/join-us/.
TO APPLY, VISIT: http://bit.ly/SR2Happlication
Sault Ste Marie Farmers' Market
Starting at 10:00 AM today. Come on down for MARKET DAY!!!!
Local Produce and Crafts, Fresh Eggs, Meats and Baked goods. Plus activities for the kiddos. Come support our local Farmer's Market. @ Sault Ste Marie Farmers' Market
Bike Friendly Soo
I found a new book at the LSSU library called Copenhangenize to be an excellent book about how Copenhagen has become the most bike friendly city in the world and how other cities can do it.
Interestingly, Copenhagen was like essentially all other cities of the world by 1970 in that it had become a car-centric city.
Like essentially all other cities of the world, Copenhagen was a bicycle friendly city in the late 1800s to ~1950. Then the car culture took over the city such that between 1950 and 1970, much of the bicycle infrastructure that had existed was removed to make way for motor vehicles. Los Angeles was also a bike friendly city prior to motor vehicles taking over by the 1930s or so.
What started to turn the situation around were the oil crises of the 1970s. Also, bicyclists started to demand that bike infrastructure be included in the transportation system of Copenhagen. It was a slow process which was accelerated by a mayor in the 2005-2010 period who pushed the development of bike infrastructure.
According to the author of the book, the CEO of an urban planning company that specializes in bicycle infrastructure, as of 2016, 62% of work and school commutes are made with a bicycle by citizens of Copenhagen. Much of the rest are made by mass transportation and walking, ~29%. Only 9% of trips were made by personal motor vehicle. The author walks the walk. He lives within city limits and bikes everywhere he goes. Early in the book he states that he drives ~5 hours a year.
One point he made is that bicycling has been made more efficiency and faster in Copenhagen than driving a motor vehicle. He did a demonstration trip by bike and car to determine the time difference between trips. On a bike it took him 13 minutes one way and 14 minutes the other way. By car it took 37 minutes one way and 40 minutes the other way.
On another point, he states that bicycles should never be placed between parked vehicles and moving vehicles, not that anything like that would ever be done in a place like Sault Ste. Marie.
He makes the point that all cities can become bike friendly if the will to do it is there.
In the post last week I mentioned Ivory Billed Woodpeckers. Apparently no one that reads this post is a birdwatcher. Otherwise I would have heard that Ivory Billed Woodpeckers don't live here and may be extinct. Ivory Billed Woodpeckers are native to swampy forests of the south. Many people considered them extinct but on the Internet I see that there is plausible evidence that they may not be extinct. They are now considered critically endangered.
On our Sunday slow ride, while we were sitting at Sherman Park eating the cookies that Adel provided, an osprey flew directly overhead with a large fish in its claws (talons). It was an impressive sight.
Lastly, the Soo Bike Club has weekly bike rides on Tuesdays leaving from ProSports. Here are the details: Tuesday Club Ride
Starting at Pro Sports
Every Tuesday (Check facebook for updates)
Pro Sports, 2621 Ashmun St, Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783, USA
Tuesday rides leave at 6:15 from Pro Sports
Hearthside Assisted Living
What better way to celebrate a beautiful Sunday afternoon ??? Have a FREEZIE POP PARTY 🎉! I was surprised that two residents said they had NEVER had FREEZIE POPS before!! Yep Roger By. and Grace D. Said they had never had these before. I was glad to break them in! Lol
Sault Ste Marie Farmers' Market
Going on NOW! First Saturday Farmer's Market!!!!
Come on DOWN for fresh produce, baked goods and entertainment. @ Sault Ste Marie Farmers' Market
Bayliss Public Library, a Superior District Library
We had so much fun learning about the planets and making our very own "Hanging Solar System!"
what a great resource the Sault Ste Marie Bayliss :library is as well as a great place to visit...
Engineer's day seemed like a fitting day to share a photo of our recently donated freighter that has nicely docked it's self on a shelf in the children's room! 🚢⚓️📚
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Sault Ste Marie Farmers' Market
Tonight is MARKET DAY!!!!
Local Produce and Crafts, Fresh Eggs, Meats and Baked goods. Plus activities for the kiddos. Come support our local Farmer's Market.
Don't Forget Music in the Park to follow!
Stop by the Safe Routes 2 Health table to enter a raffle for a chance to a win a 30 Day Membership at the War Memorial Hospital Fitness Center!
See you there!
At the Farmers Market, fresh is always best...
Downtown Newaygo Market featuring fresh local produce, specialty items, artisans and crafters in addition to 3 special dates for flea market and live music.
It was great to have some fellow walkers and a real nice surprise to have the Bayliss Children's librarian, Sabrina, join us for a quick shout out for the Lunch Loop walk here in Sault Ste Marie...a perfect day for walking...
Safe Routes 2 Health Sault Ste Marie, MI Friday's lunchtime loop!
The Sault Safe Routes to Health team, Tonya and Tim always have a great time visiting the seniors at Hearthsides Assisted living here in the Sault. Always lots of smiles and what's even better is that they put up with Tim's corny jokes. A big thanks to Wendy, staff and residents for making us feel so welcome. After our session today we went outside and enjoyed the warm sunny skies and good conversation with the seniors.
Michigan Fitness Foundation
We LOVE LOVE LOVE when Tim and Tonya from Safe Routes Back to Health get our gang moving!!! Thanks United Way of the E U P for sending them our way!!
The Sault SR2H Team has been partnering with the Bike Friendly Soo group to promote Sault Ste Marie as a "Bike Friendly City". We hope you can join us for the slow ride as rumor has it Tim has his bike out and ready to go. As the BFS group knows there is more than one way to get around Sault Ste Marie and surrounding area...Biking is a great way to enjoy the local sights.
Michigan Fitness Foundation
Bike Friendly Soo (BFS) has two events coming up in the next week. On Thursday June 13, we will have a BFS meeting in which we evaluate our new BFS website for the second, and hopefully last time. It looked pretty good last time and much has been added since then. The meeting will be in the Community Room at Bayliss Public Library at 9:30 am. If you're interested in coming, feel free to stop by.
Next Monday, June 17, we'll have a slow ride starting at 6:30 pm in the Farmer's Market parking lot across from Bird's Eye Outfitters. We'll probably go down to Rotary Park. The round trip is 3-4 miles and the terrain is flat. Everyone is welcome to come.
Last Saturday I biked down to Kinross, from Sault Ste. Marie, and back. I find that to be a pretty enjoyable ride. The paved shoulder is in good to excellent condition from here to Kinross and there is very little traffic, particularly south of 9 Mile Road. It was an excellent day for riding as well.
Several weeks ago I biked to Brimley and back. It's a route I used to take regularly. I found the shoulder on 6 Mile to be somewhat rough because of the water ruts. What that causes is a thumping. The road beyond Brimley should be excellent because it is being resurfaced, which may now be completed.
I've also been riding regularly out Riverside to Nicolet. There is a section of road between the Sugar Island Ferry Dock and 3 Mile that is in pretty bad shape. In places there isn't much of a paved shoulder and in many places, there is broken up pavement with lots of material to dodge. It would be nice if that got resurfaced.
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